Funeral House is the Best Temple !!

A funeral house is the best temple and a centre of learning for a human being. This is one place where all all are humbled, whether it is Osama Bin Laden or Obama. End of the day, all their glorious life stories will come to an end in this place. And along with that will come to an end all attachment to this body, this story and this world.

But as an onlooker, what is it that we can learn here? Well, most of us know this but sometimes it just needs a re-emphasis. It reminds us that life is a drama and we are just an actor in that drama and therefore we must not attach ourselves to our wants too much… because end of the day, it will all be left here and this body will be dissolved in this earth’s atmosphere.

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Instead if we can focus on the immortal self identity of ours, life will give us all that we need to survive and much more, effortlessly. Although all this is 'taught' in the temples also, but unfortunately, off late the essence of all those teachings has been lost and for most of us, the whole temple, deity process has just become a formality or something that we must do to avoid the wrath of god!!

Our true identity, that is, the divine intelligence that we are, (one which operates through us, as us), is also our caretaker. All the problems in the world appear because of our worries regarding our survival. We create fear, anger, hatred, corrupt ways of living, jealousy, greed, only to survive in this world and to preserve all that we have accumulated thus far, as if we are going to take this with us after our death as well. That is what a funeral house tells us….that all will be left here only. Survival is not supposed to be our problem. We are on a fully paid holiday, the expenses being paid by the almighty. This body is just a shell, we are not it. We are the pearl inside the shell. We are only here to realise our true nature and in the meantime play our role as an actor in this movie called life. But we tend to get attached to this role and create negativity around us. Imagine Aamir Khan acting like his Gajini role in his real life also!!

We are the electricity that runs a fan, we are not the fan. And this ‘electricity’ is not limited to our body alone. It runs the whole universe. All that we see around us is created, sustained and will be recycled (not destroyed), by this energy. And so, our illusionary identity called Mr./ Ms. XYZ and its story has no meaning really. It is just there so that the drama called life can carry on and the universal intelligence can keep evolving and get mature in the process. This body is just a medium therefore for this intelligence to operate, and we are a unit of the same intelligence. And so, we are it, not different from it.

And once we understand this, how can survival issues ever worry us? How can the energy be destroyed ever? And if this body gets into trouble, let it be. It is just a part of the drama. Would you ever like a movie which has only goodie goodie stuff, and no villains, no drama, no negative emotion? You will get bored out of it. It’s the same with life. In this drama, called life, suffering is just an inevitable and important part. So let’s welcome it and then let it pass away without creating negativity within us.

But for all this, we must have trust on the almighty as well as the fact that we are immortal universal intelligence ourselves and not separate from it. And we will have to cultivate trust, because mere knowing this fact will not help. And all we need to do is to start trying with an honest intention. We will then be guided by our source for the rest of the journey…. the journey that will carry on even beyond the funeral house….